Literature Quotes

Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.


Jean-Paul Sartre
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.


Aldous Huxley
Every man's memory is his private literature.


Robert Louis Stevenson
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.


Charles Dickens
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.


A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.


An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.


Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.


Anne Bronte
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.


There is always a "but" in this imperfect world.


Charlotte Bronte
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.


I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.


I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.


Look twice before you leap.


Emily Bronte
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.


J. R. R. Tolkien
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.


It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.


Not all who wander are lost.


Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

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